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Datacentre capacity planning
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July 30, 2021
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Jul'21
Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers
TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace
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July 28, 2021
28
Jul'21
APAC organisations can reduce carbon footprint with cloud
Energy savings of nearly 80% can be achieved by running business applications in the cloud rather than on-premise infrastructure, study finds
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July 22, 2021
22
Jul'21
Beeinfotech PH opens telco-neutral datacentre in the Philippines
Datacentre startup is touting carrier neutrality, bespoke services and cyber security capabilities to meet the growing demand for co-location services in the Philippines
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July 21, 2021
21
Jul'21
Datacentre capacity demand remains strong, fuelling continued growth of secondary colo hubs in EMEA
Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker report from DC Byte and Knight Frank shows demand for capacity across EMEA is holding firm and fuelling growth of secondary hubs
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July 21, 2021
21
Jul'21
Thomson Reuters fleshes out multicloud strategy with Oracle application migration deal
Multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters has added Oracle to its roster of cloud suppliers, as it seeks to make part of its tax application portfolio cloud native
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July 15, 2021
15
Jul'21
Macquarie Data Centres to build Sydney North facility
Macquarie Data Centres’ latest 32MW facility will come with a cyber security centre that monitors and manages cyber security events
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July 15, 2021
15
Jul'21
Virgin Media outage: Electrical explosion takes down network in south-east London
Underground electrical network explosion causes ‘significant collateral damage’ to cabling infrastructure, with users in south-east London told to brace themselves for ‘at least’ 24 hours of disruption
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July 13, 2021
13
Jul'21
Financial services sector’s cloud use set for more regulatory scrutiny on resilience grounds
Financial stability report by Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee raises red flag about banks’ growing reliance on a small number of cloud service providers
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July 13, 2021
13
Jul'21
Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021
Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions
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July 06, 2021
06
Jul'21
The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live
The UK's most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world
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July 06, 2021
06
Jul'21
Manutan claws back 25% of storage admin time in switch to Pure
Industrial and office supply giant needed to replace 3Par arrays then made a rapid switch to Pure Storage FlashArray flash storage when the ageing HPE hardware crashed during POC
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July 05, 2021
05
Jul'21
Ascendas India Trust to build datacentre near Mumbai
New datacentre campus near Mumbai will deliver 90MW of power to host technology and cloud suppliers as well as large Indian companies in a fast-growing market
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June 30, 2021
30
Jun'21
Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out
Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres
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June 28, 2021
28
Jun'21
Swisscom embarks on public cloud migration with AWS to power 5G innovation
Switzerland-based telco Swisscom has named AWS its preferred public cloud partner to power its digital transformation plans
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June 28, 2021
28
Jun'21
UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation
Public sector-focused IT supplier UKCloud has had its commitment to ensuring its customers are procuring services from a socially conscious provider verified by the publication of an independent report
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site
Tech giant Apple has requested a five-year extension to the planning permission deadline for its abandoned datacentre in Ireland, as politicians call for the mothballed site to be put to use
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud
France Télévisions Publicité couldn’t always get to critical data, so decided to repatriate backup and archiving from the cloud to on-site locations, with help from a managed service
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June 24, 2021
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Jun'21
Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service
Extreme Networks will draw on Microsoft Azure's UK datacentre region to provide its customers with locally hosted versions of its flagship cloud management platform
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans
Database software giant signs a deal with Deutsche Bank to support the financial services company’s ongoing hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation plans
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Vodafone confirms European datacentres will be powered by 100% green energy by July 2021
Telco giant claims it is on course to hit an important milestone in its latest sustainability push, with its entire European operations set to be 100% renewably powered by 1 July
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June 22, 2021
22
Jun'21
Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm
Norway-based datacentre operator signs a waste heat reuse agreement with the world’s first land-based lobster farm
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June 18, 2021
18
Jun'21
Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks
Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages
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June 17, 2021
17
Jun'21
Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace
The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase
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June 17, 2021
17
Jun'21
Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations
Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners
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June 16, 2021
16
Jun'21
IBM Financial Services for Cloud initiative wins support of more than 100 collaborators
IBM’s bid to build a sector-specific cloud platform to accelerate the adoption of off-premise technologies among financial services companies continues to gather pace
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June 14, 2021
14
Jun'21
Equinix secures additional funding for global hyperscale datacentre builds
Colocation giant Equinix is embarking on a series of limited liability partnerships with long-standing investment partner GIC to ramp up the number of hyperscale datacentres in its global portfolio
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June 09, 2021
09
Jun'21
Alibaba Cloud sets foot in the Philippines
Alibaba Cloud will open its first datacentre in the Philippines by the end of this year ahead of global rivals, as it expands its footprint in Southeast Asia
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June 08, 2021
08
Jun'21
QTS acquired in $10bn datacentre deal
Investment firm, Blackstone, is hedging its bets on the growth in data processing capacity that will be brought about by digitisation
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June 03, 2021
03
Jun'21
Tencent Cloud grows APAC footprint
Tencent Cloud has launched new tier-three datacentres in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo as it ramps up investments to capitalise on the region’s burgeoning cloud market
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June 02, 2021
02
Jun'21
Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19
Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers
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May 26, 2021
26
May'21
How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre
Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology
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May 20, 2021
20
May'21
Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns
The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021
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May 17, 2021
17
May'21
AWS sets out plans to expand re/Start cloud skills programme across more of the UK and Ireland
Hot on the heels of Amazon’s pledge to create 10,000 jobs across the UK in 2021, its cloud division is planning to expand the geographical coverage of its long-standing skills builder programme
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May 12, 2021
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May'21
Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers
Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
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May 12, 2021
12
May'21
Irish datacentre industry urged to throw its weight behind country’s greener electricity grid push
Host in Ireland tells industry players to work with the government and other stakeholders to boost the sustainability of the country’s electricity grid for the sake of the sector’s continued growth
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April 30, 2021
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Apr'21
Amazon posts profit and revenue growth as Q1 results highlight impact of Covid-19 on its business
Online retail giant and its cloud arm have benefited from Covid-19-induced changes to consumer and enterprise buying patterns
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April 29, 2021
29
Apr'21
JEDI cloud contract: US court refuses to dismiss Amazon’s ‘political interference’ allegations
The long-running JEDI cloud contract row rumbles on as US Court of Federal Claims refuses to dismiss Amazon’s allegations that the Trump administration interfered with contract’s outcome
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April 22, 2021
22
Apr'21
Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population
Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators
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April 21, 2021
21
Apr'21
UK government renews cloud discount pricing MoU with Microsoft
Three-year deal ensures eligible public sector organisations can continue to access discounted pricing on a range of the tech giant's cloud software and infrastructure offerings
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Microsoft to open Malaysia cloud region
Microsoft’s new cloud region located in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area is part of a broader move to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour
Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience
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April 19, 2021
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Apr'21
Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages
The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties
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April 15, 2021
15
Apr'21
VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going ‘all-in’ on one public cloud provider ‘are dead’
VMware-hosted panel debate about enterprise public cloud adoption trends charts the apparent demise of CIOs plotting large-scale, multi-year moves to a single supplier’s public cloud environment
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
AWS debuts next phase of $20m push to provide cloud tools to Covid-19 research teams
With the pandemic now into its second year, public cloud giant AWS has unveiled the next phase of its bid to provide research organisations with access to the cloud resources they need to fight back against coronavirus
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
Tencent Cloud opens Indonesia datacentre
Tencent’s Indonesian datacentre is expected to reduce network latency for local enterprises while providing backbone access for Indonesian and global internet service providers
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April 08, 2021
08
Apr'21
The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users
One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery
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April 07, 2021
07
Apr'21
Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint
Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business
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April 05, 2021
05
Apr'21
How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads
Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments
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March 30, 2021
30
Mar'21
Bitfrost subsea cable to boost APAC connectivity
A subsea cable system linking Southeast Asia and North America will be built by 2024 to meet the growing demand for bandwidth in the Asia-Pacific region
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
From private to public: Amadeus on working with Microsoft to change up its cloud strategy
Amadeus and Microsoft have joined forces to help accelerate the travel technology firm’s move to the public cloud – but why now?